1 Mountaineering: Sixty-four climbers reached the summit of Mount Everest on Saturday, including Raha Moharrak, the first Saudi Arabian woman to scale the world's highest peak. Nepal's Mountaineering Department said 35 foreigners accompanied by 29 Nepalese Sherpa guides reached the 29,035-foot peak. May is the most popular month for Everest climbs because of more favorable weather.

2Missiles launched: North Korea launched three short-range missiles into the sea off its east coast on Saturday, the South Korean Defense Ministry said. The tests broke the recent relative silence from the North, but the move was much less provocative than what had been feared in the tense weeks after the country's nuclear test in February. Short-range tests from North Korea are fairly routine, and the North fired the missiles away from South Korea and toward the northeast. South Korean and U.S. officials have worried that North Korea would cap weeks of bluster after the nuclear blast with the test of a longer-range missile that might show worrisome improvements in Pyongyang's arsenal.

3 Iraq violence: A string of attacks killed at least 16 people in Iraq on Saturday, while gunmen abducted eight policemen guarding a post on the country's main highway to Jordan and Syria, the latest in a wave of violence to grip the country. The shootings and bombings follow three days of attacks that killed 130 people in both Shiite and Sunni areas in scenes reminiscent of retaliatory attacks between the two groups that pushed the country to the brink of civil war in 2006-07. The spread of bloodshed in recent weeks has raised fears that the country may be heading toward a new round of sectarian conflict. Tensions have been worsening since Iraq's minority Sunnis began protesting what they say is mistreatment at the hands of the Shiite-led government.

4 Curfew imposed: Nigeria's military declared a 24-hour curfew Saturday on neighborhoods in the northeastern city of Maiduguri, the spiritual home of an Islamic extremist network, as soldiers continued the government's emergency campaign in the region, with authorities saying they killed 10 suspected insurgents. Lt. Col. Sagir Musa said the curfew is part of the military's push since President Goodluck Jonathan issued an emergency decree Tuesday allowing soldiers to arrest people at will and take over buildings suspected to house extremists.

5 Italy protest: A union of metal workers led thousands of people in a march Saturday through the heart of Rome to press the new government for measures to spur job creation. Union leader Maurizio Landini said the protest was held because Italy is "going nowhere" amid a stubborn recession. After weeks of political paralysis following inconclusive elections in February, Italy now has a coalition government that includes bitter rivals from the center-left and center-right blocs in Parliament.

6 Plane fire: Part of an airliner carrying more than 130 people caught fire as it landed in Moscow on Saturday, and passengers evacuated the plane by jumping onto an emergency slide. The Emergencies Ministry said none of the passengers or crew was injured by the fire in the landing gear of the Boeing 737 at Vnukovo Airport. The plane belonging to Russian carrier UTair was flying to Moscow from the southern city of Stavropol.